The century of the incomplete revolution: Searching for general relativistic quantum field theory

DOI10.1063/1.533327zbMath0981.81008arXivhep-th/9910131OpenAlexW3104584527MaRDI QIDQ2738024

Carlo Rovelli

Publication date: 30 August 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910131

zbMATH Keywords

topological quantum field theoriesloop quantum gravityspin foam modelsnonperturbative zero-dimensional string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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